That’s the body. But place cells:
“A place cell is a kind of pyramidal neuron within the hippocampus that becomes active when an animal enters a particular place in its environment; this place is known as the place field. “

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Exactly. That’s why I focus on substrate. A lot of AI assumes “all neurons are identical” but they’re not. Many have special functions that only work in-coordination-with other neurons – such as the cortical homunculus.

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Yes! The error of the 1940s notion of neuron is what most of our AI is built upon: an old and incorrect conceptualization of what a neuron is.

Since then, we can speak of “computer neurons” _or_ “organic neurons”, but they do not operate in the same fashion.

This doesn’t take away from the astounding progress we’ve made in AI! But it’s based on an old model And yet – it works amazingly well on current equipment.

Kinetic self-charging though – that’d be a tough one to beat, especially if it’s nano swarm

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Redundancy. So much is needed. One of the things I hate about the turn of events in internet politics has been the push for “one copy only”.

To me, the redundancy of online is one of its strongest powers: 30,000 copies of a thing, not one tightly controlled original — EVEN IF, many of those 30,000 copies of a thing are corrupted and changed.

You can usually combine bad copies to reconstitute originals in any case.

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Oh I’m envious. Had I the $, I’d do it. I resisted being sold on Danko Nikolic for so long, as I had time-and-again found myself dreadfully disappointed with complete theories.

But I could not find ANY holes. None. He’s right. I sat on it, would go back to it a year later, look at it again, sat on it again… allowed the notions to percolate in my background processing, looking for other ideas that competed. Nope. His view of intelligence is correct. It’s so correct that I’m actually excited for the future.